Improvement in neck-tie holders



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Neck-Tie Holders.

NO MBSOl Patented March 24.1874'.

ATTEST: INVENTORZ www UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA A. J OHNSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES R. ANDERSON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-TIE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,830, dated March 24, 1874; application filed January 3, 1874. Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ezan A. JOHNSON, of St. Louis, St. Louis county, Missouri, have invented a certain Improved Neck-Tie Holder,

of which the following is a specication:

This invention consi sts iu forming the holder of a triangular-shaped sheet of metal or other material, having a vertical slot extending some distance upward from the lower edge at the center, the sides of which engage the collarbutton to secure the holder in position. The sides or wings of the holder lie under the folds of the collar, and it is held in position thereby. rThe holder is provided with inclined slots near its inclined edges, and a slot near its top edge, through which the tie is passed to form a bow, the side slots being also intended for the passage of the tie in some form of bows.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view, showing the holder-plate in position. Fig. 2 is a front view of the holder.

The holder-plate A, of triangular shape, is formed with a central vertical slot, a, extending upward from the lower corner, and which embraces the collar button B, to secure the holder A in place, in conjunction with the folds c of the collar, under which the upper corners or wings D of the holder A rest. E E are inclined slots, and G ahorizontal slot, preferably curved in the saine manner as the upper edge. Through the slots E E G the neck-tie maybe passed or looped to form a bow, in Sonie cases the side slots E E being alone used,

and in other eases that G, while for other g EZRA A. JOHNSON.

Vitnesses:

C. W. SPALDING, SA ML. KNIGHT. 

